ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the concept of transboundary environmental governance in the context of a new and emerging threat to the marine environment: geo-engineering. It argues that a recent strategic development in international environmental governance supports the regulation of geo-engineering technologies through existing instruments and institutions and renders the creation of a new regime superfluous. This development comprises the deliberate creation of institutional connections and relationships between treaties regimes, which permit the formation of cooperative arrangements between international environmental institutions designed to more effectively address environmental threats. The chapter explores three levels of institutional linkages and connections: basic cooperative agreements between regime administrations; integrated institutional management; and integrated political management. It explores whether these governance strategies might be successfully developed in order to regulate and manage geo-engineering. Finally, it concludes with a number of observations as to the benefits and risks associated with this approach to international environmental governance both generally and, more particularly, within the context of geo-engineering.
